Jiang Jingnian had first fought a battle at Xiaonan Wharf.
He had wiped out the local Water Dragon Gang and killed the East Water forces led by Xue Yan, a Clan Elder of the Xue Family.
Later, the conflict had escalated.
On the Qiantang River north of Lin'an, he had sunk the East Water reinforcements' ships, inflicting heavy losses on the Shi Family, the Liao Family, and the Iron Garment Sect.
Not only had two veteran Grandmasters died, but local second- and third-rate forces that had sided with East Water, including the Sword Circle Garment Pavilion, the Chasing Wind Martial Hall, and the Zhai Clan Carriage Service, had all been uprooted.
He had fought three major forces from Eastwater Prefecture alone without falling at a disadvantage.
After that battle,
Jiang Jingnian's might had shaken the Two-East Region.
Although both his achievements and the caliber of his opponents fell far short of the earlier demonic disaster in Lin'an,
there had been few witnesses during the disaster. Even when he killed Fang Mo and the other Demonic Path titans, only a handful of righteous-path Grandmasters had been present.
With various other considerations added to the mix,
unless those Grandmasters who had personally witnessed the Martial Saint's phantom strike were Demonic Path infiltrators, spies, or deliberately trying to draw a Martial Saint's fire onto Jiang Jingnian, they would never widely publicize him as the main force resisting the Demon Sect.
Instead, the Mountain Cloud School's own small newspaper had turned the disaster's battles into exaggerated stories, muddying the waters with truth and falsehood to create a gap in timing and information.
But regardless of how the Two-East Region's tabloids and rumors flew thick and fast,
Jiang Jingnian had genuinely repelled the East Water forces on the Qiantang River, before numerous local factions and